Posted by: bwalters on: January 24, 2012
Everyone’s “favorite” encyclopedia provides the following definition for “Keeping up with the Joneses” : ”an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social caste or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.” So what does [...]